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One danger for ]s is '''academic elitism''', which is (roughly) the view that only someone who has engaged in ] has anything worthwhile to say on any given topic, while all others are ]s. Of course, it is possible for one to value serious scholarship without being an academic elitist.
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Another kind of '''Academic elitism''' is whereby when society gives upmost attention to students who are deemed more intelligent in the ]. This is including but not limited to being in "branded instiutions", "gifted classes" and "elite students".
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One example is ]'s , whereby paper qualifications take an upmost importance in carrer prospects. Some in society, especially the academic elites, view those who are less intelligent as of a lower ], with one even calling students in non-notable schools in Singapore to be condemned as "factory workers" in future.] Others charge that academic elites live or work "in an '''ivory tower'''", i.e. that academics are removed from reality and unseeing of reality's practical demands and necessities.

Academic elitism is the opposite of ], the belief that
"ivory tower" academics are too far removed from reality to have anything possibly useful to say about practical matters.

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